The Order of the Spork

Google might actually get social networking right this time with a completely integrated suite of new tools called Google+

The brainstorming sites listed here may hold ideas for an enterprise application for virtual meetings or offsite notetaking.

Open source code of the reddit social news ranking site. Might be interesting to use as a basis for an enterprise tool for ranking pages on an intranet.

And while the Eguchi Aimi phenomenon may be just anecdotical, the fact that a synthetic creation has been able to make their fans to have crushes and feelings without them never realizing she was a figment of someone's imagination, a digital mutant mix, is not a simple anecdote. That's very real. When people perceive such a being as real, and that being causes an emotive response in them, then that makes that character part of reality.

Good background and references on Nevada's new law allowing autonomous vehicles. 

Disturbing yet cool graphic novel/graphic violence music video showing suburban kids in a drug war.

Huh.

Latest Pew research shows users of social networking sites are, in general, more connected in real life than are non-users.

This guide is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Pioneer Portfolio, which supports bold ideas at the cutting edge of health and health care, in partnership with Institute for the Future. Our goal is to gather and organize the world's collective self-tracking resources in one place, in a way that is useful and encourages collaboration between self-tracking experts and beginners who are just starting out.

Today we are publishing a report of the statistical results from the Panopticlick experiment on web browser fingerprintability. The results show that the overwhelming majority of Internet users could be uniquely fingerprinted and tracked using only the configuration and version information that their browsers make available to websites. These types of system information should be regarded as identifying, in much the same way that cookies, IP addresses, and supercookies are.